River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-04


This habit is unphysiologica because
no animal in state of nature uses it,
aud the first time a man smokes he is
violently upset by it. When a person
eats a new kind of fruit for the first
time he may not like it, but it does not
make him iii, as such fruit is a food.
But tobacco, being poison, nearly
always causes an upset to the system
II is only by continued use that man
can use it without being made imme.
diately i'll; he is made ultimately dis.
eased by its use.
1t is expensive because there is no
need for it, it is not even a luxury
because that helps us ~ spend our su.
perhuous cash harmlessly, because II
causes more loss and injury than il
does good.
The amount spent for tobacco i'm the
United States annually, is $l.ll3,O00,
900. In the city of Chicago, $24, 900
are spent daily for cigars alone.
1t is dirty habit. What smells
worse than the breath of a smoker,
than his tobacco-sOaked clothes. and
his rank pipe! Then the ashes from
pipes, cigars and cigarettes fall on
clothes, carpets, table-cloths, etc, and
soil or disfgure them. Smoking black
ems the teeth, and if pipe is smoked
the teeth that hold it are worn away,
and SO we spoil natural adornment-
the teeth.
1t is selfish, in that the person only
who uses it gets pleasure from it, and
that often at the expense of others.
Smokers poison the air common to all
by the fumes they emit. The selfish
ness of the smoker causes family quar-
rels and disputes, the husband
preferring his pipe to wife or sweet
heart. 1t is disease producing. 1t
stops growth, and causes ill-develOping
if used before growth has stopped. In
adults it first blunts the sense of taste,
smell, and sight, and indirectly, the
hearing and touch. 1t always produc-
es more or less sore throat, and often,
in consequence, the worst kind of
deafuesss-viZ. throat deafness. When
absorbed into the system it causes pal
pitatiOn and irregular action of the
heart, and has depressing influence
on it. 1t delays digestion, causes
nervousness, trembling Of the hands,
indecision, loss of energy and of will
power, with loWnes5 OF spirits. 1t
deadens thought, and makes man dull
and listless instead of being intelligent
and active. 1t causes loss of appetite,
helps on cancer of the stomach, and is
the active cause of most cases of can
Ger seen on the lower lip, which is
rarely seen except among smokers. 1t
also lessons the vitality and wounds
heal less rapidly among smokers than
among nOn-smOkers. 1t wastes time
and euergy. 1t wastes energy as il
the vital powers, and uses up
itself life and power that should be
used for helping on mankind. 1t leads
to drinking. Smoking always causes
dryness Of the throat, and saliva is
elected fluid lost to the system to re-
lieve both these conditions fluids are
taken. AS tobacco is nervine de-
pressant, alcohol is often used TO get
rid of this depressed feeling. Stats
tics Of temperance friendly societies
show that smokers break away from
their pledge in greater numbers than
do.
1t leads 20 loss of property, goods and
lives by the fires which originate by
lighted ashes from pipes, by lighted
cigar ends, or matches used by smok-
ers. The loss in this country by fire
traceable TO smoking is very large
In the United States from thirty %
fifty thousand people commit suicide
each year by the use of tobacco. At
seven per cent compound interest, if
you use one cents worth of tobacco a
day for so years, it will cost you 1914; at
five cents day for the same time, it
will cost you 81, 723; and at fifty cents
a day it will cost you SIT ,239. At 10
per cent compound interest, if you
waste one cent on tobacco each day for
20 years, you will lose 5000, and for
fifty years you will lose 81, 3l8. AT ten
cents day for ten years, you will lose
1882. At ten cents day for forty
years, you will lose $I6,l40. If you
waste one dollar day for ten years,
you will lose $5,SI7; and for fifty years,
you will lose S434,825. If the amount
saved by not using one cent s worth of
tobacco each day for ten years were
placed at per cent compound interest
for 100 years, it would amount to
$43,76l. In the same manner if five
cents a day were saved for thirty
years, it would amount to 81 ,495, j92.
From 1885 to 1916 the majority of
young men who learned to smoke in
this country, acquired the habit be-
tween the years of 20 AMI %; during
the next decade it was from Is to 90;
next, from 10 TO five, the latter age not
no NJ ha
No devotee OF tobacco ever gradual
ed at the head of his class at Harvard
At Yale University the students of
each class are ranked in four grades,
according to their scholarship. An in
quiry recently instituted developed
some interesting facts as to the relation
of the tobacco habit TO low grading
OF the forty students holding first
rank, but. ten used tobacco, while
twenty-five out of twenty-six in the
fourth or lowest rank, used the weed.
A smoker spends twenty cents a day
for cigars; how many dollars will he
spend in one-half q yeari How many
books at $500 piece could he buy
with this money!
Tom smokes three cigars, and his
father smokes five cigars each day, for
which they pay sixty cents a dozen.
Ills father drinks three glasses of beer
a day ut five cents. Toms mother
buys three Ioaves of bread day at five
cents a loaf, and two rolls of butter u
week at fifty cents roll. At the end
of the year how much more do the CT
gars and the beer cost than the bread
and butter!